Hush-hush agreement another sign of corporate takeover

Today’s global world corporations are gaining global domination through economics, most have no allegiance to this country only to their profits. The current secret negotiations among representatives of both parties will severely disrupt our freedom and our labor markets. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the biggest threat to our economy and democracy. Our sovereignty as a nation is jeopardized by this trade agreement. “Buy American” would be illegal in this TPP. This agreement, which is a treaty will be treated not as a treaty but a ‘trade’ agreement. Labeling it as a “trade” agreement allows bypassing the constitutional safeguards of a treaty. A treaty is publicly debated and voted in the Senate. The TPP is an agreement that sublimates our laws to the countries signing on to the TPP agreement. We all know how NAFTA and the other “trade” agreements destroyed many of our industries. This particular “trade “agreement contains so many details and undemocratic, anti- American rules to it that it is being kept quiet to avoid the ire of the American people.

We don’t have a capitalist nation when you take our government’s regulating away from our elected legislators. We will have “privatized the profits and socialized the losses.” Right now we have secret groups bargaining on behalf of some secretive corporate lobbyists to further destroy our economy and Congress has been shut out.

Where is the American principle of fairness? Why is this TPP so secret? This is another example of the unfairness growing with the corporate takeover of our government. A constitutional amendment to remove “personhood” from corporations would stop some corporate abuses. Corporations are not people and are entitled none of the rights of a person. Voters are people and their votes are diluted by corporate funds in the government.

No matter what your political affiliation this country’s government has been bought and paid for by the corporations and ‘We the People’ are pawns. The corporations are manipulating people and worming their way through our government, buying our democracy with the full acceptance of both parties and our representatives in Washington and state capitals.